5Author's Note: Sadness. =(
Disclaimer: MINE!
Faltered Fairytale
I was crying again.
"Colette, what is wrong?"
His smokey breath was on the back of my neck, freezing my skin beneath the cool air. I shivered, involuntarily, mid-sob. He moved away from me. I only drew my knees in closer to my chest and sobbed harder to my pillow.
I tried to annunciate the words, to bark them out in the utter despair that was consuming me whole. He wouldn't understand. He had so openly denied me the only thing I had ever wanted from him, so how was I supposed to make him understand? Make him see what so proudly pounded in my chest?
I had thought, for years, that a fairytale romance with my Risley would bring me to everlasting love. That if he just openly claimed it for me, and I for him, the spell on his invisible body would be broken and he would become whole, alive, with a heart like mine and a breath that I would breathe in forever. I so naïve; so wrapped up in what I thought love should have been, what my books told me it was.
"It's not supposed to hurt this much," I managed to babble, between deep inhales of shaky air, a sob or two, and a whole river of tears.
"I am so sorry, Colette."
He inhaled before speaking three words caused a tremor of pain to echo in every molecule in my living body.
"But I'm dead."